AC9ADA6P01 Year 5 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 The Arts provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

practise and perform dances using technical and expressive skills in informal and/or formal settings

Elaborations

• 1 rehearsing and performing a range of learnt dance and/or dance they have choreographed with an awareness of how they are working within their body capabilities and applying technical and expressive skills
• 2 using specific technical and expressive skills in their performance to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning to the audience; for example, creating tension through use of a series of slow, controlled movements performed with neutral (blank) facial expressions
• 3 presenting dances, using production elements such as music, costumes and props where appropriate to enhance different contexts; for example, using traditional music when performing dances with representatives of the cultural group from the community
• 4 using questions based on Viewpoints such as questions about forms and elements to reflect on their performance; for example, “How did the dancers/you use space and energy to create a feeling of strength/isolation/happiness?”, “What relationship are you aiming to create between the dancers and the audience?”

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